OTF Premium Texas basketball 2026-27 season thread

[Bevohorns]

Arkansas trying to get on us 

 

[LonghornFan4Ever]

1 hour ago, Bevohorns said:

Arkansas trying to get on us 

 

Arkansas has the #1 high school recruiting class for the 2026 cycle.  Texas has the #1 overall class (high school recruits + international recruits + transfer portal) in the 2026 cycle.  So not the gotcha they thought it was.  But this shows the Arkansas-Texas rivalry is as strong as ever, at least on the hardwood.  This must be what the Nolan Richardson-Tom Penders era felt like.

[Jordan91]

29 minutes ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

Arkansas has the #1 high school recruiting class for the 2026 cycle.  Texas has the #1 overall class (high school recruits + international recruits + transfer portal) in the 2026 cycle.  So not the gotcha they thought it was.  But this shows the Arkansas-Texas rivalry is as strong as ever, at least on the hardwood.  This must be what the Nolan Richardson-Tom Penders era felt like.

Not really because Arkansas owned Texas. They ended the BMW run. Texas would have beaten them during the season, but Nolan didn’t get a tech for walking off the floor. 

[LonghornFan4Ever]

[Bevohorns]

58 minutes ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

Arkansas has the #1 high school recruiting class for the 2026 cycle.  Texas has the #1 overall class (high school recruits + international recruits + transfer portal) in the 2026 cycle.  So not the gotcha they thought it was.  But this shows the Arkansas-Texas rivalry is as strong as ever, at least on the hardwood.  This must be what the Nolan Richardson-Tom Penders era felt like.

Maybe cause I’m a young but Arkansas has never been thought of as a rival and let’s be real Texas owns them in most things besides basketball and lately baseball 

[LonghornFan4Ever]

10 minutes ago, Bevohorns said:

Maybe cause I’m a young but Arkansas has never been thought of as a rival and let’s be real Texas owns them in most things besides basketball and lately baseball 

Yeah it's an old school rivalry from the Southwest Conference days.  This article written by Blake a little over a year ago explains it well, although it's referring to football.

Not sure Texas has a rival in basketball on that level right now.  Maybe Texas-Florida can become that level of rivalry in the SEC if Miller and Golden stick around at their respective schools and Texas can start winning some games against Golden over the next few years.

[Gerry Hamilton]

1 hour ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

Kentucky the No. 2 big winner of offseason after Florida is a truly asinine take … geez 

[Bevohorns]

6 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Kentucky the No. 2 big winner of offseason after Florida is a truly asinine take … geez 

I watched some of this but stopped it 30 mins in because the guy on the lefts take seemed pretty biased.